Spanish Filmmakers of the Change of Century in the Orbit of Science-Fiction Genre

In the renewal of Spanish cinema from the 1990s onwards, as recent histories of Spanish cinema has pointed out, genre as narrative formula has played a crucial role. In this context, science fiction, one of the cases yet to be studied in depth, has become increasingly present in Spanish film production. In this paper we propose an overview of the main Spanish contributions to the genre in the period of the late twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first; paying special attention to how the filmmakers of the moment have contributed, also from science fiction, to blur the border that traditionally has separated genre films and the auteur cinema or that has opposed genres to the national identity of our cinema.